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- Affect is a modern concept that developed in the 19th century with Wilhelm Wundt, and it comes from the German word Gefühl meaning "feeling."
- Emotions and feelings are distinct concepts: emotions are mental images and bodily changes, while feelings are the perception of bodily changes.
- Emotion work is done to achieve a certain feeling that one believes one should feel.
- Class differences influence how parents raise their children in terms of feelings and behavior control.
- Sensation occurs when sense organs collect various stimuli for transduction, meaning transformation into a form that can be understood by the nervous system.
- Individuals in society predict that something will give them a certain desired outcome or feeling, but indulging in it might only cause a temporary thrill or the opposite of what was expected.
- Negative feelings can lead to harm, and some individuals choose to inflict self-harm to feel something other than what they currently feel.
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